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Beulah

Beulah
Beulah
1950 - 1953
Comedy, Sitcom
TV Series
A comedy series of a family with the central role pointed to their Negro domestic who pulls the weekly family situations together with more common sense than all of the other family members.
Directed by:
Abby Berlin, Richard L. Bare, James Tinling, Jack ReynoldsWriters:
James Hill, Harry ClorkStarring:
William Post Jr., Hattie McDanielAfter working as early as the 1910s as a band vocalist, Hattie McDaniel debuted as a maid in The Golden West (1932). Her maid-mammy characters became steadily more assertive, showing up first in Judge Priest (1934) and becoming pronounced in Alice Adams (1935). In this one, directed by George Stevens and aided and abetted by star Katharine Hepburn, she makes it clear she has little use for her employers' pretentious status seeking. By The Mad Miss Manton (1938) she actually tells off her sociali
1930s and 1940s film actress Louise Beavers was merely one of a dominant gallery of plus-sized and plus-talented African-American character actresses forced to endure blatant, discouraging and demeaning stereotypes during Depression-era and WWII Hollywood. It wasn't until Louise's triumphant role in Imitation of Life (1934) that a film of major significance offered a black role of meaning, substance and humanity.
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Directed by:
Abby Berlin, Richard L. Bare, James Tinling, Jack ReynoldsWriters:
James Hill, Harry ClorkStarring:
William Post Jr., Hattie McDanielAfter working as early as the 1910s as a band vocalist, Hattie McDaniel debuted as a maid in The Golden West (1932). Her maid-mammy characters became steadily more assertive, showing up first in Judge Priest (1934) and becoming pronounced in Alice Adams (1935). In this one, directed by George Stevens and aided and abetted by star Katharine Hepburn, she makes it clear she has little use for her employers' pretentious status seeking. By The Mad Miss Manton (1938) she actually tells off her sociali
1930s and 1940s film actress Louise Beavers was merely one of a dominant gallery of plus-sized and plus-talented African-American character actresses forced to endure blatant, discouraging and demeaning stereotypes during Depression-era and WWII Hollywood. It wasn't until Louise's triumphant role in Imitation of Life (1934) that a film of major significance offered a black role of meaning, substance and humanity.
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